Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stressed by the President was the recommendation that the farm program's cost should not exceed the current "soil conservation" appropriation of $500,000,000. Asked how he reconciled this with the fact that the Farm Bill made no provisions for raising the additional $250, 000,000 which it will probably cost the Government, the Committee's Chairman Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith had no answer, left to the House the problem of raising additional revenue for the payments. Meanwhile last week, the House Agriculture Committee under Marvin Jones was working on a Farm Bill...
That Congress was paying far less heed than the President might have wished to the program he had asked it to attend to, by no means meant that it was doing nothing last week. On the contrary, it meant principally that an extraordinary session called when there was nothing very extraordinary going on, had assembled when something most extraordinary was. This was of course, Recession. Notoriously liberal in regard to spending money, Congress is otherwise generally inclined to be conservative. The problem most on the minds of both Houses last week was helping business. In the ways it considered...
...incomes. Representative Vinson, seconded by the Ways & Means Committee's Chairman Robert Lee Doughton made it clear that tax legislation would not be ready for action in the special session. Said Chair-man Doughton: "I think it would take just as long to get a part of the program through as to do all of it. I don't object to consideration at the special session, but I don't think we can get the bill ready in time...
...Caballero, whose admirers have nicknamed him the "Spanish Lenin." "All that I ask is that those who once wanted to create this fusion still hold to the same purpose which we used to put forth, which was to bring about the fusion of the two parties with a revolutionary program! I well remember that when we used to speak about that, the Communist Party set as a condition that we break relationship with all bourgeois parties. Do they hold to that today? [Cries of "No! No!"] Do they insist today that we break with all bourgeois parties as they used...
...Swarthmore's campus last week sprang up a successor to the Veterans of Future Wars. Undergraduates formed the United Scions of the Aristocracy, claiming 215 members, drafted a program for "uniting the scattered crumbs of the upper crust," planned to agitate for free caviar and champagne for 'Impecunious aristo-crats." First to receive their attention will be the "underfêted and undersoused one-thirtieth of the nation's population." Their legislative aims include pensions for indigent debutantes and for "well-bred worthies who can prove they have never soiled their hands with labor." Cried an aristocracy...